Improvement in shield for sewing-machines



-other devices.

idteii lpida w' dei@ ...W mmm i@ @een l @time MARYW. WELT-Y, OF NEW YORK,

The Schedule referred to in tliese Letters Patent and making part cf the same.

'.70 all whom 'it may concern.:

Be it known that I, Mrs. MARY W. WELTY, ofthe city, county, ind State of New York, have invented :t new and improved Sewing-inehine Shield; and I do hereby dechire that the following is :t fnll, clear, and exnet description thereof', which skilled in the nrt to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming,r part oi' this specification.

'lhe object oi' this invention is to provide n shield- :tttnclnnent to sewing-machines, by which the fabric to be sewed will he protected fiom the oil of the `jonrinds, :md from injnry by 'contact with the machinery, and which will, :it the sinne time, forni :in extension and continuation ot the clotlrplnte ofthe mnehine, toy

let the iihrie more smoothly over it.

liereiotbre, several forms of shield -nttuchments have been proposed; hnt the sinne were either secured npon or under the iced-plate hy projecting screws or They liet-:une thereby more of :1 hindrnnee to than i support of the i'atlrie, and inllilled merel),r the ohjeet ot' or nicehnniszn of the machinery.

My present invention consists, chiefly, in providing mrs or lugs 'on the iiont. end of the shield, such eers ':itehin' over and nnder the cloth-platte, so that. they hold the shield in line with the cloth-platte, :ind muse it, therefore, to iorin n. smooth continuation ofthe latter.

-ln the accompanying drawings- Fignres 1 :iiidl me side views of' two forms of' my improved shield.

Figure 3 is :1- perspective view oi' the same.

Similar letters of rcl'erenee indieiite corresponding parts.

A in the. drmvinff re n'esents the shield. It is made of sheet-metal or other suitable material, ofsnch iorm that it will iii; the several kinds ol' sewing-machines will enable others' protecting the tthrie from the'oil `tdrtpl; it to the vznions ni-nchincs.

nivo to-ho varied, te ln nil ceses, it forms first :t horizontal lnicltwierd proieetion, n, ollhe shield, :ind is then carried np, lo hold tlieldn'ie :inn-rr from the nntehnery.

On the l'ront end of the shield, nen-r th(l sides, in- 'cisionsizn'e mode, which prodnee edi-s b and t: fr. rllnlat-ter are lient downward, :ind poss under ihe clothplntell, und the enr b :ihove th(` pli-ttc, so [het they retain the sliielditsell' in line ih the plil'ie, as lshown, causing it to he :i smooth prolongation ol' sind plete.

The ein-s n :1y also he solden-d, or otherwise scoured, separately, to the lshield, :ind ill ihcn serve the sznne purpose :is those which nre l'ornn-d h v the incisions.

(.)n the upright portion (I ol' the shield is either scoured :i screw clump, e, to iiiste'n it lo nn upright standard ofthe machine, or there :irc perfor-:Lied ings, ff,` to tit npon liorizonml :irhors or screws that project from the machine. In the hitter ense, wedges, g, Screws, earns, or levers, :ire required to lock thcl shield. y

The form ol shield represented in figs l :ind 3 is adopted to the 'illeox & (libh's sewing-nmehine, while that shown in lig. 2 lits the Thcelcr & Wilson mai chine.

l do not claim nor contine myself to nny'pecnlian' form of shield, nor device for fnstening the sinne to the sewing-machine; hnt, having thus described my invention, l

which :ire in use. lts shnpe will l I do ehtim, :ind desire to secure by Letters vPatent- .A sewing-nntehine shield, provided with the cnrs b e :it its front end, the said ears fitting the edge of the (doth-plate oi' the nntchine, to hold the shield in lino with the same, :is set ihrth. n MRS. MARY W'. WEI/FY. .\Vitnesses:

A. V. Bmx-:snm ALEX. lnlonn'rs. 

